“Who wants to be old?<\/p>\n
What man, in his so called prime, fails to note his coming scenery-<\/p>\n
the bandaged varicosities, the braces, the cut bunions, the scarification<\/p>\n
and bloodless horn, the smells and tastes of himself, the thickening<\/p>\n
spectacles, the hearing aids, the pills and petit prostheses, the<\/p>\n
gouty overpall, the kick, cracking, and the myriad painful impediments<\/p>\n
of urination, defecation, respiration, transpiration, the organic<\/p>\n
wheeze, the gradual invasion of death?<\/p>\n
He wants to be old who accepts it.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Philip Wylie.<\/p>\n
Excerpted from”Opus One”, published by Rinehart and Company,<\/p>\n
Inc., New York and Toronto.<\/p>\n
Islander.<\/p>\n
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